● 5-Dec-2017 -- US President Donald Trump told
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he intends to relocate the US
embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; President Abbas warned of the
"dangerous consequences" of such a decision [Al Jazeera]

● 3-Dec-2017 -- Sanaa, Yemen: Clashes were
reported between Houthis and supporters of former President Ali Abdullah
Saleh; the Iranian embassy in Sanaa was attacked; 200+ militants were killed
[New China-Xinhua]

● 30-Nov-2017 -- New
York, NY: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) soared above 24,000, an all
time record [MarketWatch]

● 30-Nov-2017 -- Canada: "New Mulroney
Institute (Mulroney Institute of Government at St. Francis Xavier University)
is bankrolled by billionaires steeped in scandal; Ex-PM raised part of funds
for N.S. university site from businessmen tied to bribery schemes, tax
havens" [Zach Dubinsky, CBC News-ICIJ]

● 29-Nov-2017 --
Moscow, Russia: Russian Orthodox Church/Russia's Investigative Committee:
“Investigators plan to undertake psychological and historical analysis to
establish if the shooting of the Russian royal family was a ritual killing
(Kabbalah ritual organized by Jewish members of the Bolshevik Party)"
[RT]

● 23-Nov-2017 -- Sochi, Russia: President
Vladimir Putin: "The ability of our economy to increase military
production and services at a given time is one of the most important aspects
of military security... To this end, all strategic, and simply large-scale
enterprise should be ready, regardless of ownership" [Vice News]

● 15-Nov-2017 -- Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's military
seized control of the country; Zimbabwe's Major General SB Moyo, Chief of
Staff Logistics: "We are only targeting criminals around him [President
RG Mugabe] who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic
suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice" [Al
Jazeera-Reuters]

● 12-Nov-2017 -- UK:
"Prince Charles blames 'foreign Jews' for Middle East turmoil in 1986
letter; "The Prince of Wales also called on the US to ‘take on the
Jewish lobby’" [Chantal Da Silva, Independent]

● 7-Nov-2017 -- Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT): "A handful of billionaires own and control a
significant part of the global economy … these billionaires and multinational
corporations get richer by hiding their wealth and profits and avoid paying their
fair share of taxes" [J. Corbett, MPN]

● 7-Nov-2017 -- South
Korea: President Donald Trump signaled willingness to negotiate with
Pyongyang (and sell military equipment to Japan and South Korea) [Al Jazeera:
AP]

● 6-Nov-2017 -- "Harvey Weinstein paid
ex-spies and private detectives to find dirt on accusers and
journalists" -- a report on how "powerful men in Hollywood and in
society at large ... get away with being sexual predators" (Weinstein
used "former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence
agencies") [Los Angeles Times: AP, 7-Nov-2017]

● 6-Nov-2017 -- Saudi
Arabia: Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, the deputy governor of Asir province, and
7 other officials were killed in a helicopter crash near the border with
Yemen [BBC]

● 31-Oct-2017 -- New York City, NY: An attacker
plowed a rented truck into cyclists and pedestrians killing 8 people; the
terror attack was made in ISIS's name [CNN US]

● 31-Oct-2017 --
North Korea: 200+ workers were reportedly killed in a tunnel collapse at a
nuclear test site [The Japan Times-TV Asahi]

● 31-Oct-2017 -- Wittenberg, Germany: Germany
celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation; Martin Luther
nailed his "95 Theses" to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church on
31-Oct-1517 [DW]

● 31-Oct-2017 --
Israel: IDF blew up a Palestinian tunnel; 7 Palestinians were killed by
"inhalation" of smoke/dust (according to IDF) or poisonous gas
(according to Hamas) [The Times of Israel]

● 31-Oct-2017 -- Adrian Lovett: "am I
pessimistic or optimistic about the future of the web? ... We worry that our
democracies are being hijacked by peddlers of online propaganda and that
filtered news diets polarise civic discourse. We’re anxious that our privacy
is under siege as companies capture more and more of our data and use it in
ways few of us understand... We see the risk of artificial intelligence and
automation undermining job security and discriminating against the most
vulnerable" [World Wide Web Foundation]

● 30-Oct-2017 --
World Meteorological Organization: "Concentrations of carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level
in 800,000 years" [Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, WMO]

● 18-Oct-2017 --
Mogadishu, Somalia: Thousands protested against the bombing that killed 300+
people in Mogadishu on 14-Oct-2017 [The Guardian]

● 18-Oct-2017 -- Beijing, China: 19th National
Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) [Xinhua]

● 17-Oct-2017 -- USA:
Opioid epidemic: 64,070 people died from drug overdoses in 2016 (up 21% YOY)
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]; the American death toll in the
Vietnam War is 58,200 [Police Executive Research Forum]; [A. Welch, CBS News]

● 16-Oct-2017 -- USA: "Nearly half of
African American borrowers defaulted on a student loan … 75% of African
American dropouts from for-profit colleges defaulted" [Ben Miller,
Center for American Progress]; "an analysis of federal student loan
figures shows black students still owe more than they originally borrowed 12
years later" [L. Camera, U.S. News and World Report, 17-Oct-2017]

● 16-Oct-2017 --
Austria: Sebastian Kurz's People's Party won 31% of the national elections
vote; union with the far-right Freedom Party is expected [Al Jazeera News]

● 16-Oct-2017 -- Kirkuk, Iraq: Iraqi forces
seized a military base, an oil field and the airport from Kurdish soldiers
[WaPo]

● 12-Oct-2017 -- USA to withdraw from Unesco,
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization;
reasons: UNESCO's alleged "anti-Israel bias" and US being $550
million in arrears to UNESCO [NYT]

● 3-Oct-2017 -- Rainer Weiss, emeritus
professor of physics at MIT, on respect for science being in jeopardy:
"We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence
isn't universally accepted and is in fact in jeopardy. That worries me a
lot." [S. Malone, Reuters]

● 3-Oct-2017 --
Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish win the Noel Prize in Physics for
their gravutational wave discovery (LIGO experiment); Weiss: “I view this
more as a thing that recognizes the work of about 1000 people ... It’s really
a dedicated effort that has been going on, I hate to tell you, for as long as
40 years ..." [Symmetry]

● 27-Sep-2017 --
Beverly Crawford, on the rise of the far right in Germany: "It's the
German economy, stupid! ... [W]hile the incomes of the richest 10 percent
grew by 27 percent between 1991 and 2014, households at the bottom of the
scale saw their incomes drop by 8 percent during the same period... [T]he
richest 10 percent of Germans own 60 percent of the wealth and manage to save
almost half of what they earn, while the share of the bottom 40 percent is
negligible" [Berkeley Blog]

● 26-Sep-2017 -- Saudi Arabia: Women will be
allowed to drive by Jun-2018

● 26-Sep-2017 -- Har
Adar, West bank: A Palestinian shot and killed an Israeli policeman and 2
security guards near a settlement; the attacker was killed [WaPo]

● 25-Sep-2017 -- Oxfam International:
"Brazil’s six richest men have the same wealth as poorest 50 percent of
the population; around 100 million people. The country's richest 5 percent
have the same income as the remaining 95 percent"

● 17-Sep-2017 -- "Belgium, the
Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Turkey are in possession of nuclear weapons
which are deployed under national command against Russia, Iran and the Middle
East" [Prof. M. Chossudovsy, Global Research, 12-Feb-2010, updated
17-Sep-2017]

● 12-Sep-2017 -- Joint report published by the
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan
Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN): U.S. Department of Defense has
reportedly given $2.2 billion worth of weapons to anti-IS groups in Syria;
the weapon acquisition process involved suppliers in Eastern Europe and
former Soviet republics with links to organized crime, and "spotty
business records" [R. Dubin, FP]

● 12-Sep-2017 --
Israel: IDF is conducting a massive military drill to simulate war with
Hezbollah [D. Shahtahmasebi, The Anti-Media]

● 4-Sep-2017 -- Jerusalem: The Patriarchs and
Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem are united in their opposition to "a
systematic attempt [by Israel] to undermine the integrity of the Holy
City" and "to weaken the Christian presence in the Holy City"
[Agenzia Fides, 5-Sep-2017]

● 1-Sep-2017 -- "More than 100,000 people
signed a petition [posted on the White House petition website on 20-Aug-2017]
accusing billionaire investor George Soros of sedition against the US,
demanding that he and his affiliates be declared “domestic terrorists” and
that his assets be seized" [RT]

● 26-Aug-2017 -- USA:
Steve Bannon, former Chief Strategist, described 2 Jewish members of the
Trump administration, Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council,
and Steve Mnuchin, Treasury Secretary, of being "globalists"; Cohn aspires
to be "the next chair of the Federal Reserve" [WaPo: J. Lemire
& C. Lucey, AP]

● 21-Aug-2017 -- Washington, DC: President
Donald Trump announced a new plan for victory over the Taliban in
Afghanistan; the Taliban are "Happy to Continue" the war [M.
Usufzai et al, NBC News, 22-Aug-2017]

● 21-Aug-2017 --
Singapore: USS John S McCain destroyer collided with a tanker; 10 sailors are
missing; the US Navy ordered an "operational pause" of the US fleet
[BBC News]

● 18-Aug-2017 --
Washington, DC: President Donald Trump "directed that United States
Cyber Command [a division of NSA] be elevated to the status of a Unified
Combatant Command focused on cyberspace operations" [White House]

● 12-Aug-2017 --
Gorakhpur, India: Pushpa Private Limited allegedly cut oxygen supply to a
hospital over payment arrears; ~60 children died; "lack of of
coordination and laxity on the part of the CMO" was blamed [Virendra
Singh Rawat, Business Standard]

● 4-Aug-2017 --
Kasai, DR Congo: UN team report "that between 12 March and 19 June, some
251 people became the victims of extrajudicial and targeted killings,
including 62 children" [UN News]

● 4-Aug-2017 -- New York, NY: Dow Jones
Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at 22,092.81, an all-time record high
[Yahoo!Finance]

● 4-Aug-2017 --
Israel: Ari Harow, Netanyahu's former chief of staff, signed a deal to
deliver "damning evidence" against Netanyahu: "the PM will be
indicted" [G. Weitz, Haaretz]

● 3-Aug-2017 -- USA: Oak Ridge National
Laboratories (ORNL) team of scientists. led by Juan Collar of University of
Chicago, built a prototype of the world's smallest neutrino detector -- a
"monumental" feat [J. Dunietz, Scientific American]

● 2-Aug-2017 --
Egypt: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed off on a program to raise
drinking water and sewage fees by up to 50%; as part of the 3-year US$12
billion IMF loan agreement, the government raised in Jul-2017 electricity
prices by up to 42% and fuel prices by up to 50% [Zawya: Reuters]; (on IMF's
"cushion of support," see
http://www.imf.org/en/Countries/Egypt/QandA/Egypt-qandas#Q4)

● 26-Jul-2017 --
Israel: "Israel through the force of military occupation seizes 87% of
the Palestinian water in the occupied lands and devotes a large portion of it
to illegal settlements" [Mustafa Barrghouti, Ahram Online]

● 25-Jul-2017 -- USA: Justification for
continued US military presence in Aghanistan: exploitation of resources,
including mineral deposits; Stephen Feinberg, billionaire owner of DynCorp
International, is reportedly advising President Trump [NYT]

● 22-Jul-2017 --
Iran: A Sayyad-3 Missile production line was launched; the missile has a
range of 120 km and a flight altitude of 27 km and can deal with threats from
drones, stealth aircrafts, cruise missiles, helicopters, and other aircrafts
[Mehr News Agency]

● 19-Jul-2017 --
Washington, USA: A secret "deniable" CIA program authorized by
President Obama to arm Syrian rebel groups to topple President Bashar
al-Assad of Syria was ended by President Trump [NYT]

● 13-Jul-2017 --
Wold: Environmental defenders (of land, natural resources, wild life) are
being killed at the rate of ~4 per week; many killings are reportedly
financed by "corporations or state forces" [J. Watts and J. Vidal,
The Guardian-Global Witness]

● 7-Jul-2017 --
European Stability Mechanism: "The Board of Directors of the European
Stability Mechanism (ESM) ... approved the third tranche of €8.5 billion of
ESM financial assistance to Greece" [ESM]

● 27-Jun-2017 -- Brussels, European Commission:
Antitrust: "The European Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion for
breaching EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market dominance as a
search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its
comparison shopping service"

● 22-Jun-2017 -- London, UK: 600 high-rises may
have cladding similar to that used at Grenfell Tower [NBC News]

● 22-Jun-2017 --
Iran: Commander-in-Chief Hamid Reza Moghadam Far: "the US is not as
influential a player as it used to be and it can no longer manipulate
regional equations… It now has to associate with countries like Saudi Arabia
whose negative role in supporting terrorism, whose dictatorship, and whose
dark face is known to everyone in the region... The world has come to realize
that the US, despite leading a coalition against [IS] and terrorism in Syria
and Iraq, Syria in particular, does not fight terrorism in practice and is in
fact [is] supporting it…" [RT]